Comments on: Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/ Reformed Theological Resources Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:20:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 By: Camden Bucey http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-84861 Wed, 09 May 2012 04:39:26 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-84861 In reply to Scott.

We also did a follow up episode incorporating material from Dr. Tipton’s course on the subject.

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By: Camden Bucey http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-84860 Wed, 09 May 2012 04:36:44 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-84860 In reply to Scott.

It’s still in the works. Last I heard, it was getting ready to be submitted to the publisher.

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By: Scott http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-84858 Tue, 08 May 2012 23:03:18 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-84858 …and, oh no!! I had already purchased Ralph Smith’s book on Van Til and the Trinity. Yikes!

I’m interested in this topic because, for the last few weeks I’ve been getting beat up by an atheist who argues that we Christians cannot present a coherent accounting of God’s “personhood”.

We’ve not spoken enough for me to get the full gist of his argument, so I’m sure I’m not stating it as best I could, but he argues something like: When we finally give an account of God’s personhood, it turns out to be trivial such that, the Christian’s view of personhood could describe mechanistic processes of some impersonal environment. We can’t account for God’s intentionality or His qualitative mental states.

I was excited when I heard Dr. Tipton discuss these very issues during the podcast! I’m a committed Van Tillian and I’m especially inclined to reject Clark’s view after seeing how such a view (an impersonal, “pure-logic” God) leaves me open to all sorts of criticism from the atheists. But I’ve got to figure out how to defend the “ultimate personhood” of God. I hope you guys don’t mind me asking a few questions:

1. If God is “ultimately personal” — then how can we distinguish between this sort of personhood and a mechanistic environment?

2. Are you familiar with this argument, or something like it? I know some atheist in a chatroom didn’t come up with it, so there has to be more sophisticated versions floating around out there.

3. I’d also like to study up on why Clark held the view he did. I’m marginally familiar with Clark’s apologetic enterprise and I’d be interested in reading how he develops his view of the Trinity.

Anyway — thanks for what you guys do here at Reformed Forum.

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By: Scott http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-84857 Tue, 08 May 2012 22:24:24 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-84857 This was posted back in 2008, but I’m just finding it now.

Did Dr. Tipton ever get around to getting a book published about the Trinity?

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By: Trinitarian Personality - ReformedForum.org http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-29851 Fri, 10 Dec 2010 05:02:04 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-29851 […] and doxological subject of Trinitarian personality. Dr. Tipton previously discussed the subject on Christ the Center episode #49.  Standard […]

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By: Reformed Forum » Top Episodes from 2008 http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-9318 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:00:51 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-9318 […] Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology with Lane Tipton […]

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By: Christ the Center Interview Index http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-9039 Fri, 08 May 2009 13:07:52 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-9039 […] the Fourfold State D.G. Hart Deconstructing Evangelicalism Stephen J. Nichols Jesus Made in America Lane Tipton Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology Highlights from 2008 Jim Cassidy Reformed Catechesis and the […]

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By: Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology « Philippine Theo Law Gee http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-5482 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:19:54 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-5482 […] January 4, 2009 · No Comments Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology | The Reformed Forum. […]

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By: Collin Lee http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-5340 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:26:55 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-5340 Listening as I write this…
Isn’t “being” in relation to mankind a state of sin which in the absence of a relationship with Christ, encompassing of everything in our reality? I mean, to say that we are inherently sinful, does that not include our consistent state as well as our actions? In that sense, sin is our “universal.” For the person who has been saved by Christ, we are never told that our sins were erased, yet covered by the blood of Christ. So, whether you are saved or not, it seems to me that sin is the trait we share which grants us all unity in our common state. Particulars of each sinner is meaningless to God as Jesus states that we are all breakers of the law regardless of frequency or our perceived (and flawed) severity.

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By: Audio: Interview with Westminster Seminary’s Lane G. Tipton on Van Til’s trinitarian theology : Sic et Non http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-5337 Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:47:03 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-5337 […] Audio: Interview with Westminster Seminary’s Lane G. Tipton on Van Til’s trinitarian theology Reformed Forum […]

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By: HikoBills http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-5289 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:10:47 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-5289 Got directed here from aomin.org. I am really going to have to listen to this again. Honestly though, thank you much for putting this out there. It has given me a lot to think about.

Go with God.

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By: Patrick R http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-5272 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:05:13 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-5272 With all due respect to R.C. Sproul, Lane Tipton should write the 2nd edition of “Now, That’s a Good Question!”

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By: Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology « Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-5268 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:43:29 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-5268 […] good enough to send me a link to a recent interview that Lane G. Tipton did at Christ the Center on Van Til’s Trinitarian Theology.  I then checked my RSS feeds and saw that Jeff announced the interview on the Pros Apologian blog […]

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By: Jeff Downs http://reformedforum.org/podcasts/ctc49/#comment-5265 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:02:21 +0000 http://www.reformedforum.wpengine.com/?p=451#comment-5265 Yahoo!!!! I just started listening. Thanks brothers.

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